Glutamate antagonists limit tumor growth.

abstract：:The oncoproteins MDM2 and MDMX negatively regulate the activity and stability of the tumor suppressor protein p53, conferring tumor development and survival. Antagonists targeting the p53-binding domains of MDM2 and MDMX kill tumor cells both in vitro and in vivo by reactivating the p53 pathway, promising a class of a...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Liu M,Li C,Pazgier M,Li C,Mao Y,Lv Y,Gu B,Wei G,Yuan W,Zhan C,Lu WY,Lu W

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose approaching prediction from a framework grounded in the theoretical correct prediction rate of a variable set as a parameter of interest. This framework allows us to define a measure of predictivity that enables assessing variable sets for, preferably high, predictivity. We first define the prediction rate ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Lo A,Chernoff H,Zheng T,Lo SH

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium abscessus (Mabs) is a rapidly growing Mycobacterium and an emerging pathogen in humans. Transitioning from a smooth (S) high-glycopeptidolipid (GPL) producer to a rough (R) low-GPL producer is associated with increased virulence in zebrafish, which involves the formation of massive serpentine cords, absc...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Halloum I,Carrère-Kremer S,Blaise M,Viljoen A,Bernut A,Le Moigne V,Vilchèze C,Guérardel Y,Lutfalla G,Herrmann JL,Jacobs WR Jr,Kremer L

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A temperature-sensitive ras allele has an effective lethal phase at 29 degrees C about 12 hr after pupation and a temperature-sensitive period for lethality beginning midway through the third larval instar and ending around pupation. The mutation also alters the quantity of pteridines present in the eyes, testes, and ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Grigliatti T,Suzuki DT

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the presence of the nucleotide analog adenosine 5'-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (ATP[gamma S]), effects of Ca2+ on stiffness and equatorial x-ray diffraction patterns of single skinned fibers of the rabbit psoas muscle were studied. It is shown that cross-bridges in the presence of ATP[gamma S] have properties of the w...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Kraft T,Yu LC,Kuhn HJ,Brenner B

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell-surface antigen detected by the monoclonal antibody JONES is expressed in the retina and a number of other central nervous system regions of the rat during the latter part of embryonic development and the early postnatal period. In addition to the expression on certain neuroblast populations it is found on so...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Blum AS,Barnstable CJ

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By examining many alternative arrangements of cortical areas, we have found that the arrangement actually present in the brain minimizes the volume of the axons required for interconnecting the areas. Our observations support the notion that the organization of cortical areas has evolved to optimize interareal connect...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Klyachko VA,Stevens CF

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The central questions of bacterial ecology and evolution require a method to consistently demarcate, from the vast and diverse set of bacterial cells within a natural community, the groups playing ecologically distinct roles (ecotypes). Because of a lack of theory-based guidelines, current methods in bacterial systema...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Koeppel A,Perry EB,Sikorski J,Krizanc D,Warner A,Ward DM,Rooney AP,Brambilla E,Connor N,Ratcliff RM,Nevo E,Cohan FM

更新日期：2008-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have employed Xenopus embryos to express human acetylcholinesterase (AcChoEase; EC 3.1.1.7) in developing synapses. Transcription of AcChoEase mRNA was driven by a 2.2-kb sequence upstream from the initiator AUG in the ACHE gene encoding AcChoEase, with multiple potential sites for binding universal and tissue-spec...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Ben Aziz-Aloya R,Seidman S,Timberg R,Sternfeld M,Zakut H,Soreq H

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) is a group of peptides, originally isolated from the cardiac atria, that have a number of important effects on blood pressure, renal function, and salt balance. In the current study, expression of the ANF gene in certain extra-atrial tissues of the rat has been examined by radioimmunoas...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Gardner DG,Deschepper CF,Ganong WF,Hane S,Fiddes J,Baxter JD,Lewicki J

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica is a single cell eukaryote that is the etiologic agent of amoebic colitis. Core promoter elements of E. histolytica protein encoding genes include a TATA-like sequence (GTATTTAAAG/C) at -30, a novel element designated GAAC (GAACT) that has a variable location between TATA and the site of transcri...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Singh U,Rogers JB,Mann BJ,Petri WA Jr

更新日期：1997-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously observed the spontaneous, pH-dependent insertion of a water-soluble peptide to form a helix across lipid bilayers [Hunt, J. F., Rath, P., Rothschild, K. J. & Engelman, D. M. (1997) Biochemistry 36, 15177-15192]. We now use a related peptide, pH (low) insertion peptide, to translocate cargo molecules...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Reshetnyak YK,Andreev OA,Lehnert U,Engelman DM

更新日期：2006-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive activation of calmodulin kinase II (CaMKII) causes arrhythmias and heart failure, but the cellular mechanisms for CaMKII-targeted proteins causing disordered cell membrane excitability and myocardial dysfunction remain uncertain. Failing human cardiomyocytes exhibit increased CaMKII and voltage-gated Ca(2+) ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Koval OM,Guan X,Wu Y,Joiner ML,Gao Z,Chen B,Grumbach IM,Luczak ED,Colbran RJ,Song LS,Hund TJ,Mohler PJ,Anderson ME

更新日期：2010-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Islet transplantation offers a potential therapy to restore glucose homeostasis in type 1 diabetes patients. However, islet transplantation is not routinely successful because most islet recipients gradually lose graft function. Furthermore, serological markers of islet function are insensitive to islet loss until the...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Lu Y,Dang H,Middleton B,Zhang Z,Washburn L,Stout DB,Campbell-Thompson M,Atkinson MA,Phelps M,Gambhir SS,Tian J,Kaufman DL

更新日期：2006-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeat proteins have recently been of great interest as potential alternatives to immunoglobulin antibodies due to their unique structural and biophysical features. We here present the development of a binding scaffold based on variable lymphocyte receptors, which are nonimmunoglobulin antibodies composed of Leucine-r...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Lee SC,Park K,Han J,Lee JJ,Kim HJ,Hong S,Heu W,Kim YJ,Ha JS,Lee SG,Cheong HK,Jeon YH,Kim D,Kim HS

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria merozoite invasion of human erythrocytes depends on recognition of specific erythrocyte surface receptors by parasite ligands. Plasmodium vivax merozoite invasion is totally dependent on the recognition of the Duffy blood group antigen by the parasite ligand Duffy-binding protein (DBP). Receptor recognition by...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： VanBuskirk KM,Sevova E,Adams JH

更新日期：2004-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Clathrin-coated vesicles are known to be involved in the transport of proteins from the Golgi to the vacuole in plant cells. The mechanisms by which proteins are directed into this pathway are not known. Here we identify an integral membrane protein of approximately 80 kDa, extracted from clathrin-coated vesicles of d...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Kirsch T,Paris N,Butler JM,Beevers L,Rogers JC

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Outside of the tropics, environmental conditions fluctuate in a generally predictable manner across the year. Many small mammals have evolved mechanisms, such as seasonal breeding and annual adjustments in physiology, morphology, and behavior, that promote winter survival when food is scarce and thermoregulation is ch...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Weil ZM,Norman GJ,DeVries AC,Berntson GG,Nelson RJ

更新日期：2009-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been known that cholera outbreaks can be initiated when Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera, is present in drinking water in sufficient numbers to constitute an infective dose, if ingested by humans. Outbreaks associated with drinking or bathing in unpurified river or brackish water may dire...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Lobitz B,Beck L,Huq A,Wood B,Fuchs G,Faruque AS,Colwell R

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of pyrimidine nucleoside analogues containing [2',5'-bis-O-(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)-3'-spiro-5''-(4''-amino- 1'',2''-oxathiole-2'',2''-dioxide)]-beta-D-ribofuranose as the pentose were found to inhibit human immunodeficiency virus type 1 [HIV-1(IIIB)] replication at a concentration of 0.06-0.8 microM but wer...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Balzarini J,Pérez-Pérez MJ,San-Félix A,Schols D,Perno CF,Vandamme AM,Camarasa MJ,De Clercq E

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-7 functions as a trophic factor during T lymphocyte development by a mechanism that is partly based on the induction of Bcl-2, which protects cells from apoptosis. Here we report a mechanism by which cytokine withdrawal activates the prodeath protein Bax. On loss of IL-7 in a dependent cell line, Bax protein transl...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Khaled AR,Kim K,Hofmeister R,Muegge K,Durum SK

更新日期：1999-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypernociceptive effects of cytokines [TNF-alpha, keratinocyte-derived chemokine (KC), and IL-1beta] and their participation in carrageenan (Cg)-induced inflammatory hypernociception in mice were investigated. Nociceptor sensitization (hypernociception) was quantified with an electronic version of the von Frey fil...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Cunha TM,Verri WA Jr,Silva JS,Poole S,Cunha FQ,Ferreira SH

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) superfamily are important for cell growth and survival. In addition to providing costimulatory signals for cell proliferation, ligation of both TNFR1 and Fas can result in programmed cell death or apoptosis. The underlying mechanism requires an intact 80-aa stretch ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Prasad KV,Ao Z,Yoon Y,Wu MX,Rizk M,Jacquot S,Schlossman SF

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriorhodopsin from Halobacterium halobium has been solubilized in the nonionic detergent Triton X-100. The circular dichroic spectrum and hydrodynamic properties indicate that the structure of this protein in the detergent is not significantly altered from that of the native membrane-bound form. Bacteriorhodopsin ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Reyenolds JA,Stoeckenius W

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin states can be distinguished by differential covalent modifications of histones or by utilization of histone variants. Chromatin associated with transcriptionally active loci becomes enriched for histones with particular lysine modifications and accumulates the H3.3 histone variant, the substrate for replicat...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： McKittrick E,Gafken PR,Ahmad K,Henikoff S

更新日期：2004-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:During exercise, increased energy demands are met by increased glucose production that occurs simultaneously with the increased glucose uptake. We had previously observed that, during exercise, metabolic clearance rate of glucose (MCR) increases markedly in normal, but only marginally in poorly controlled diabetic dog...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Miles PD,Yamatani K,Lickley HL,Vranic M

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of superoxide and H2O2 in the cytotoxicity of paraquat were assessed in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Neither catalase nor superoxide dismutase inhibited the loss of ability to form colonies when added to the medium. When introduced into the cells, superoxide dismutase but not catalase inhibited the toxicity ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Bagley AC,Krall J,Lynch RE

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endothelins (ETs) form a group of three vasoactive peptides (ET-1, ET-2, and ET-3) for which two types of cellular receptors have been identified, types A and B ET receptors (ETA and ETB receptors, respectively). To address possible targets for ETs within the liver, we isolated the four principal liver cell popula...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Housset C,Rockey DC,Bissell DM

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In adipocytes, adenylate cyclase is positively regulated by beta-adrenergic agents and negatively regulated by adenosine. Incubation of adipocytes with adenosine deaminase relieves the inhibition of adenylate cyclase by destroying the adenosine that the cells release into the medium. When adipocytes are incubated with...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Chung FZ,Weber HW,Appleman MM

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galanin is a neuropeptide with a wide variety of biological functions, including that of a strong endogenous anticonvulsant. No nonpeptide ligands, capable of activating galanin receptors, are available today. Based on known pharmacophores of galanin, a combinatorial library was designed, synthesized, and screened at ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Saar K,Mazarati AM,Mahlapuu R,Hallnemo G,Soomets U,Kilk K,Hellberg S,Pooga M,Tolf BR,Shi TS,Hökfelt T,Wasterlain C,Bartfai T,Langel U

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00